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Article: FBI AGENTS OPPOSE CLEMENCY OFFER TO ACTIVIST.(MAIN)

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December 16, 2000
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Byline: ARTHUR SANTANA Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of FBI agents marched to the White House on Friday to urge President Clinton to deny clemency to Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975.

About 500 former and current FBI agents marched, two by two, to the White House. There, they paused for a moment of silence for the two fallen agents, Ron Williams and Jack Coler.

John Sennett, president of the FBI Agents Association, a nongovernmental organization that helped plan the rally, carried a petition signed by about 9,500 current and former law enforcement officers opposed to Peltier's ...

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